The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-08-03


age at Augusta, Ga.
THE President has accepted an invitation
to visit Kansas City.
DAVID CITY, Nebraska, has been half de-
stroyed by cyclone.
The city of Dublin has been partially pro-
claimed under the crimes act.
GENERAL BoULANGER has sent his seconds
to M. Ferry to arrange duel
THE Pope has decided not to interfere in
the Knights of Labor question.
MCGARIGLE, the fugitive Chicago boodler,
was seen by reporter in Sarnia.
The Boston block in Minneapolis was
damaged $500 600 by fire last week.
FROM fifteen to twenty deaths from cholera
are reported in Catania, Italy, daily.
THE total internal revenue receipts will
show falling off of about 100000.
WHEAT, corn, oats, OIL beef and hogs are
all lower than they were week ago.
IT turns out that but two-thirds of the
new Panama canal loan has been taken.
AGosTINo DEPRETIs, the Italian prime
minister, is dead, at the age of seventy-six.
The French steamer 90 La Verite" has
been destroyed by fire. Six lives were lost.
THERE were twenty-five cases of heat
prostration Friday in New York city, five
fatal.
THE report of Mr.. Blane's intention to re-
turn at an early day to the United States is
denied.
SENATOR f. JACKSON of Wicomico county
is the democratic nominee for governor of
Maryland.
The grain crop in eastern Oregon and
Washington Territory is the largest and best
in their history.
IT is expected that at least 70, 600 veterans
will attend the coming Grand Army encamp-
ment at st. Louis.
LORD SALISBURY, speaking at Norwich
warned his party to prepare for dissolu-
ton of parliament
CROPS in northern and eastern New York
Vermont and western Massachusetts, indi-
cate bountiful yield.
SOME of the Knights of Labor have issued
a circular expressing dissatisfaction with
the present constitution.
THERE is a story that Bishop Loughlin OF
Brooklyn has been summoned to Rome for
burning papal mandate.
NINETEEN persons died Sunday in New
York city without medical attendance, the
largest number on record.
THROUGH the knavery of President Glenn.
ent the Citizens Savings Bank of Leaven-
worth, Kansas, has failed.
THREE persons were killed by lightning
at Bertram, Texas, Thursday. The flash
came from ClOuuleSS SKY.
Two children were suffocated and ten
other persons fatally burned by the destruc-
ton of bakery in Chicago.
THE promoters of the Tehauntepec shiI
railway met at Pittsburgh Wednesday and
determined to push the work.
SEVERE thunder-storms, accompanied by
loss of property, are reported from Contoo
cook and Franklin Falls, n. II.
WAGON was run into by train at Lake
View, Mich, Saturday and two ladies were
killed and girl fatally injured.
Mrs WILSON BARRETT, the actress, has
just died in London after a long illness
Her stage name was Miss Heath.
THE steamship Umbria," west bound
last Wednesday encountered huge cyclone
wave and was damaged thereby.
THE heat at New York Sunday was in
tense. There were thirty-one cases of heal
prostration, four resulting fatally.
THE New Hampshire senate passed bill
prohibiting the use of barbed wire fence.
without top rail or board of wood.
THE Pttsburg iron workers are becoming
dissatisfied with Powderly and threaten t
cut loose from the Knights of Labor.
THE liberals have won the parliamentary
election to fill a vacancy in Worcestershire
making great gains and gaining seat.
THE Henrietta CTeXas) National Bank has
suspended business on account of the de
pressed condition of the cattle market.
A CYCLONE created havoc to the crops il
the vicinity of Fort Worth, Texas, and in
| iured the town to the extent of $4,000
PRESIDENT FITZGERALD of the Irisl
National League discountenances the forma
ton of the Anti-Coercion Society at Chicago
| NEARLY $1,000 have been extorted from
rich Philadelphia spinster, who is made Il
believe she is under the spell of evil spirits
Mrs. ANNA SHOCKS of Adamsville Ohio
is under arrest, charged with poisoning he
four children. The family is prominent il
| society.
| News has been received of the death al
Ceylon of Mrs. w. w. Rowland the oldes
missionary in active service of the Ameri
| can Board.
Miss HENRIETTA HILL, a leading membe
of the Central Congregational church
Brooklyn, has married Ju Sing, Chimes,
evangelist.
AT Richmond, Ind, Joseph Rich his chill,
and wife's mother We're cut to pieces by thu
cars. They attempted to cross the tracks il
a carriage.
In a thunderstorm at Middletown, CT.
a COW was struck by lightning and he
horns were knocked off, but she was not in
| jured otherwise.
A DOZEN persons We're taken out uncon
SClOuS from burning tenement-hOuSe il
Chicago Friday. Two died from the effect
and others may die.
THERE is a sensation at Ottawa caused b.
the statement that Darcy MCGEE wa
killed by a Quebec lawyer, and not b.
! Whalen, who was hanged
CHAUNCEY NJ. DEPEw and ex-Governo
Alger of Michigan went to Europe to secur
the aid of English capital in building a ney
| trunk line across the continent.
A COLLISION on a bridge near Hopedale
H., on the Alton road, between construC
| ton and freight-train, resulted in the deaf
of five men and injury to seven others.
FRANK Brown, "a well-known farmer G
Dover, \. H., who weighed ABB pounds an
was said to be the largest man in New
Hampshire, died rather suddenly Monday,
The Tribune says last July was the warn
est month in New York since 1876 an,
many points in the Atlantic States have ha
no parallel for more than seventeen years
DAMAGE by freshet in Green River Valley
Mass, is more widespread than at first sur
posed. Crops were ruined, buildings swep
away and the roads washed in every direC
ton.
A FIRE at Georgetown, Ky, destroye
seven buildings in the principal bushes
block of the town, including the office {
the Times newspaper. Total loss estimate
at 100000
The Contoocook and Warren rivers in Ne,
Hampshire overtlowed their banks in const
quence of the heavy rains, and much dan
age was done. Crops were ruined and bus
ness suspended.
PARTY of five girls at Cohoes, n. Y
had a thrilling experience at boating, fou
| of them being carrip1 over n dam while TN